As time goes on, I will link all of the sections to lengthy background essays. This will take a while. In the meantime, take a look, read the introduction, and think about all of the questions that emerge from even a quick look at the calendar.
Solar Calendar Date
(top to bottom; right to left
十
日
一期星
Eleventh Month, Tenth Day
Astral Period One
Monday, November 10
Monday, November 10
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Section Two
Beneficent Stars
Section Two
Beneficent Stars
(top to bottom, right to left)
月生母天
恩氣倉德
恩氣倉德
Heavenly Virtue
Maternal Granary
Engendered Vapor
Lunar Kindness
Maternal Granary
Engendered Vapor
Lunar Kindness
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Section Three
Auspicious Hours
(top to bottom, right to left)
申辰子
吉吉凶
酉己丑
Auspicious Hours
(top to bottom, right to left)
申辰子
吉吉凶
酉己丑
吉凶吉
戌午寅
中中吉
亥未卯
中中吉
亥未卯
中中凶
23:00-01:00 Inauspicious
01:00-03:00 Auspicious
03:00-05:00 Auspicious
05:00-07:00 Inauspicious
07:00-09:00 Auspicious
09:00-11:00 Inauspicious
11:00-13:00 In-Between
13:00-15:00 In-Between
15:00-17:00 Auspicious
17:00-19:00 Auspicious
19:00-21:00 In-Between
21:00-23:00 In-Between
01:00-03:00 Auspicious
03:00-05:00 Auspicious
05:00-07:00 Inauspicious
07:00-09:00 Auspicious
09:00-11:00 Inauspicious
11:00-13:00 In-Between
13:00-15:00 In-Between
15:00-17:00 Auspicious
17:00-19:00 Auspicious
19:00-21:00 In-Between
21:00-23:00 In-Between
The hours above are for Hong Kong. It is up to you if you want to recalibrate or to assume that the cyclicality of the calendar "covers" the rest of the world. This is a greater interpretive challenge than you might think.
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Section Four
Activities to Avoid
(top-to-bottom; right to left)
Activities to Avoid
(top-to-bottom; right to left)
忌
塞補時栽
穴垣插種
Cutting-out Clothing
Timely Injections
Patching Embankments
Plugging Caves
塞補時栽
穴垣插種
Cutting-out Clothing
Timely Injections
Patching Embankments
Plugging Caves
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Section Five
Cosmological Information
Section Five
Cosmological Information
十
八
乙
八
乙
酉
水
水
危
開
開
Eighteenth Day (Intercalary Ninth Lunar Month)
Cyclical day: yiyou (22/60)
Phase (element): Water
Constellation: Danger (12/28)
"Day Personality" Cycle: Open (11/12)
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Section Six
Appropriate Activities
(and Miscellaneous Information
(top-to-bottom; right to left)
宜
倉修嫁祭
出造娶祀
貨動納祈
財土采福
置上移入
產樑徙學
安修理出
葬開髮行
煞班
小俱天債
亡空將火不
倉修嫁祭
出造娶祀
貨動納祈
財土采福
置上移入
產樑徙學
安修理出
葬開髮行
煞班
小俱天債
亡空將火不
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Appropriate Activities
Venerating Ancestors
Inquiring-into Fortune
Appropriate Activities
Venerating Ancestors
Inquiring-into Fortune
Entering Study
Going Out (and about)
Marriage Alliances
Grain Payments
Moving Households
Patterning Hair
Repairing and Building
Moving Soil
Putting-up Beams
Repairing and Opening Granaries
Capital and Product Outflow
Setting-up Production
Positioning Graves
Classified Balefulness
Baleful Astral Influences
Debt Not
Heavenly Fire
Everything General
Small Void-Loss
Heavenly Fire
Everything General
Small Void-Loss
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Section Seven
Inauspicious Stars
(right to left)
白 林
White, Copse
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(right to left)
白 林
White, Copse
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Section Eight
Miscellaneous Information
門 磨 碓
Gate, Mortar, Pestle
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